"Denethor grieves for his son" by Anke Katrin Eissmann

Wonderful. Splendifuculious. Denethor looks so... Denethor-y here. Noone gets him right. He's not the creepy pyro I always see. This is the true him. Good job.Creepy pyro? No indeed, that's not Denethor.

You say you don't dislike any Tolkein characters... what about Sauron and Morgoth/Melkor? Melkor tried to wreck Arda completely and Sauron was like soooo evil! You can't like them... Say they were well made characters, yeah, but not like them...

Anyway about the art. BRILLIANT. You really got the emoions right in this, even if Pippin's helmet is stil a teeny weeny miniscule bit off. (Still something odd about the wings...) I could never paint anything liek this, not in a million years. Your art is B-E-A-utiful. Sad he never sees Faramir get better. Sad he let the despair get him like that.Yes, that's sad indeed. As for "liking" evil characters, well, I don't think they're sympathetic or something like that. But as you said, they are "well-made", and thus I can't dislike them.

I wasn't going to comment *again*, but I just had to tell you how much I loved your hobbits! Especially Pippin, he's my favourite hobbit, and you draw him so...Pippinly.
Your two foreground figures also bowl me away. *is bowled away*. Pleeaase draw a picture of Eowyn and the Nazgul! Probably it's such a commonly drawn scene that you're avoiding it, or you have some other equally good reason, but pleeeaaase? You would do it so well.
I am rereading LOTR for the 7th or 8th time, this time aloud to my siblings. It's a queer sensation, as if I am reading it again for the first time. And I am seeing very plainly that Tolkien is the Master. No wonder he can inspire such magnificent art.You're right, I've been avoiding that scene because it's been portrayed so often already. Yet should I ever come up with an original idea of how to do it, I shall.

I like this one better then some other ones in your gallery Because it has a bit more colour in it. I noticed that in some of your paintings most of the people you painted were almost white. I love the job you do on you paintings, It makes me want to read the trilogy again lol. Nice work The lack of colour in some of my older paintings may be due to the fact that they were scanned from photocopies.

Denethor is really drinking that cup of bitterness now. What a great picture. Denethor looks like the wreck he is, sinking physically and mentally; yet the likeness between him and his son is strong.
Minor quibble - wouldn't Denethor have removed Faramir's bloodstained outer clothing and had the wound cleaned and bandaged, then put him in a clean nightshirt and robe or something? Or is that meant to be a sign of Denethor's slide into despair, that he doesn't bother to have Faramir tended like that...
I am not a Denethor fan in that I don't think Denethor was a particularly good, or heroic character. But he is a fascinating character. John Noble could have been a great Denethor for the movie, if they had given him a good script to match his voice and talents. (he was a bit young for the part, but I could forgive that, he looked much more like Denethor than David Wenham looked like Faramir)True. Pity they messed up his character as well. About the tending of Faramir, I've always wondered about that as well, but then decided that Denethor wouldn't allow it. Imrahil had already staunched the wound on the battlefield, so there wasn't a danger of Faramir bleeding to death (I think). I tend to believe that if anybody had been able to get through to Faramir to actually tend him, they would have removed him to the Houses of Healing instantly. So it seems fitting that Denethor wouldn't let them get even close to his son. And he did get a blanket ...

Geeze. . . Denethor has just realized the consequences of his actions. The emotion is captured so perfectly.Thanks a lot.

Much emotion on the part of denathor. Good job. This one looks vaguely familiar, but i still don't know if i've seen it before.

Give me a break! Grieving?GRIEVING!? Denethor is the one who sent him to his death in the first place! Yeah i know the "he wasn't himself" excuse. I don't care! The picture is good, but inaccurate. He sent him to his death and then tried to burn him alive! He obviously wasn't grieving! I'm sorry about all this, Anke, but I am a Denethor activist. Besides the misleading title, the drawing is very well done. ^^

Luck charm what are you thinking?! Deep inside I could tell Denethor loved his son but his own pride and anger got in the way. I feel that Denethor really didn't know how much his son ment to him until he nearly lost Faramir. I give you thumbs up for this artpiece!

I'd be giving you another outpour of enthusiasm if I could only find the right words! Denethor looks noble, and must have been handsome when he was younger, but I always wish that he had not been corrupted by the Seeing Stone. Actually I think he started going wrong by being jealous of Thorongil, which was perhaps partly his father's fault? But his weakness in using the Stone was what really killed him, and caused his despair which almost killed his son.

Who are the people in the background? I recognise Pippin, of course, but not the other two. Not guards of the Citadel... not Imrahil... who are they?